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Open space, residential property values, and spatial context

Soren T. Anderson, Sarah E. West

Regional Science and Urban Economics 36(6): 773-789

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A hedonic analysis of home transactions in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area finds that the value of proximity to open space is higher in dense neighborhoods, those near the central business district, high-income, high-crime, or with many children. Warns that applying the metro-wide average value to a specific neighborhood can substantially overestimate or underestimate what open space is worth there.

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